Monika Cechova
Assistant Professor at Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
United States
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Top SchoolMonika Cechova is an interdisciplinary scientist combining biology, bioinformatics, and computer science with 11 years of research and engineering experience across academia in the United States and Europe. Currently an Assistant Professor at Masaryk University's Faculty of Informatics, she previously led postdoctoral and bioinformatics projects at UC Santa Cruz, Penn State, CEITEC and the Academy of Sciences, focusing on genome assembly, sex chromosome evolution, and early embryonic development using next‑generation sequencing and long‑read technologies. She has hands‑on experience with PacBio, Oxford Nanopore and BioNano, and a track record of creative visualization and analysis of complex multi‑copy gene families that bridge wet‑lab questions and computational solutions. Trained with a PhD from Penn State and degrees in bioinformatics and computer science from Masaryk University, she brings a rare blend of experimental insight and software skills to genomics problems. Notably, her work has contributed to understanding heterochromatin variability and male fertility gene evolution in great apes—an example of applying computational genomics to evolutionary and practical breeding questions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Bioinformatics, Master's degree, Bioinformatics at Masaryk University BrnoDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biology, General, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biology, General at Penn State University
Czech, German, Slovak, English
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Github Skills (17)
galaxy5
bioinformatics5
seq5
artifacts4
sequencing4
sdk4
genomics4
rna-seq4
pipeline3
cli3
sequence3
molecule3
snakemake3
scalable2
pytorch1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
biomonika/linkyx
Feb 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years 2 months
biomonika/HPP
Sep 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:70 commits, 1 PR, 231 pushes in 6 months
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